Comment by AnthonyMouse
1 year ago
How is one supposed to exercise their right to anonymously express political opinions if anonymity is prohibited by law?
1 year ago
How is one supposed to exercise their right to anonymously express political opinions if anonymity is prohibited by law?
There is no right to anonymously express political opinions.
There is a right to express political opinions, but anonymity is a privilege, not a right.
Then how do you explain these?
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/anony...
I see controversy and a lot of dissent among Justices, but no decisions that explicitly declare a Constitutional right to anonymity.
And the modern Court explicitly declared that a Constitutional right to privacy does not exist, and one cannot have anonymity without privacy, so no.
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The converse would have to be true then, that the government has the legitimate power to intimidate people to not express their opinion. This does not seem like a legitimate power for government to have, but now I need to be careful whether I express it at all.
Laws against slander, libel, intimidation, conspiracy, perjury, etc are based upon the government's power to intimidate people from expressing opinions. It is a felony in the US to express the opinion that the President should be killed. Speech in the US has never been a free for all.
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